Biggest News of 2024
Breakdancing debuted as an Olympic sport in the 2024 summer games, held in this city
Paris
The national rate of soda consumption in this country is 150 liters per person per year, driven by marketing campaigns in indigenous languages and limited access to clean drinking water
Mexico
In 2011, A16Z led the Series B round for this startup, an online marketplace for both short-term and long-term rental accommodation
AirBnB
Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven
Titans
Halfway between Harvard & M.I.T., Central Square is the traditional downtown of this Boston-area city
Cambridge
Eating this orange vegetable is apparently good for your eyes because of its high concentration of beta-carotene
Carrot
The “Brat Summer” wave dominated pop culture for much of the summer, fueled by the music from this artist
Charli XCX
This country leads the world in motorcycle usage, with over 77 million registered and accounting for 85-90% of road traffic
Vietnam
This company was one of the first two of A16Z’s investments—but it was later retired in 2025, in large part because it lost most of its market share to Zoom
Skype
Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice
Cerebrus
This Celtic reached the 2022 and 2024 NBA Finals, winning a championship and Finals MVP award in the latter
Jaylen Brown
Every year, deaths related to smoking these surpass more than 8 million worldwide
Cigarette
On March 1, 2024, this company became the third company in the history of the United States to close with a market capitalization in excess of $2 trillion
Nvidia
Four main islands make up this country, although there are nearly 4,000 smaller islands too
Japan
After A16Z raised a $150 million Series G round for this social video game platform for children in 2020, it became valued at $4 billion
Roblox
This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock
Scylla
In 1897 Boston opened the first of these in America, running from Park Street to Boylston Street
Subway
If you are born in a certain kind of this in India, you might not be able to marry someone born in a different kind of this
Caste
This British pop star died at the age of 31 after falling from a third-floor balcony at a Buenos Aires hotel
Liam Payne
Along with Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, this country is one of the “Four Asian Tigers,” characterized by rapid economic growth from the 1950s to the 1990s
South Korea
In 2012, A16Z invested $100 million in this proprietary developer platform, which netted over $1 billion for the fund when Microsoft acquired it for $7.5 billion
Github
A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest
Arachne
I found a statue of Thoreau & a replica of his cabin at this site where he lived the simple life in the 1840s
Walden Pond
This kind of tape was an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback that was popular in the 80s
Cassette
Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed after years of civil war in this Middle Eastern country at the end of the year
Syria
The large deserts of the central region of this country mean that 90% of its citizens live on the coast
Australia
In January 2021, the firm led a $100 million Series B for this audio-chat social networking app, but the app has dwindled in popularity since the end of the pandemic
Clubhouse
With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him
Paris
A painting by Vermeer was one of the works stolen from this Boston museum in 1990
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Catch Kevin and Allen reading this literary genre that deals substantively with subject matter that is sexually stimulating or arousing
Erotica